Minister of National Education Nabi Avcı prepared a new regulation on the preparatory schools in line with the recent verdict on the issue by the Constitutional Court. Minister Avcı also declared the regulation to rotate teachers who had served in the same school for 15 years would not be applied.

Minister of National Education Nabi Avcı said the action plan for the educational institutions that have been subjected to transformation and those who have not converted from prep schools yet have now been established and added “with a secondary regulation to be announced next week all the necessary measures will be completed on this issue. Due to the preamble of the Constitutional Court verdict what has to be done is very clear. We prepared our new regulation accordingly.”

Minister of National Education Nabi Avcı commented on the Constitutional Court verdict to annul the law on the conversion of the preparatory schools to private high schools and said “there is no official verdict that has reached the Ministry until this moment. Let the Constitutional Court release the preamble of the verdict, let us see why it has annulled certain articles and let us see clearly what has happened. Then as the Ministry of National Education we can share our views and we can tell the public what course of action we will take.” The Minister said all the necessary precautions have been taken and there is no room for students and parents to be alarmed or feel unease.

Minister of National Education Nabi Avcı answered questions by journalists on the conversion of preparatory schools to private high schools and news reports that have been circulating in the parallel media (media groups affiliated to the Gülen movement). Minister Avcı said the Ministry had made a one and a half hour long preliminary defense at the Constitutional Court hearing on the appeal against the conversion of the schools and added “the Parallel media published unimaginable lies about the hearing at the Constitutional Court.”

Minister of National Education Nabi Avcı inaugurated Turkey’s first applied Migrants School to education built with the cooperation of the Anatolian University, the United Nations Population Fund and the Ministry of Education.